Theme Pockets, September contains reproducibles galore -- minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included. Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.
The three topics for September and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:
School Days:
- helping hands book
- treasure map of the school
- school tools book
- learner layer book
- Things I Want to Learn memo list
- interview school helpers
Africa:
- the animals, land forms and stories of Africa
- cut and paste a dromedary
- fold and cut an elephant
- savanna/desert/jungle collages and writing
- Anansi stories with a colorful web
- monkey book
- wide-mouthed hippo
Whales:
- whale picture cards
- make a model of baleen
- whales blows book
- whale haiku
- As Big as a Whale Book
Lessons include:
- colorful art projects
- creative writing
- nonfiction writing
- science
- informational reading and writing
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.
